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Rose Madder

Thrilling suspense from the No. 1 bestseller

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Rose Madder

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Blair Brown, Stephen King
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Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card.

Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, 'Rose Madder', which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it.

But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And he's getting close. Rosie can feel how close he is getting . . .

A brilliant, dark-hued fable of gender wars, a haunting love story, and a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense, ROSE MADDER is Stephen King at his electrifying best.


(P)2011 Penguin Audio USA©1995 Stephen King Domestic Thrillers Fantasy Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Fiction Scary
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Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated . . . one of King's most engrossing and topical
A superb suspense novel
Rousing . . . vivid and sensitive
A superb suspense novel
Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated...one of King's most engrossing and topical horror stories
One of the great storytellers of our time
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I quite like this book- Stephen King has done a lot worse!!!. Good characters, vivid descriptions that made me feel slightly raw if I'm honest. The end is a bit of a damp squib - but I'd recommend it.

It's ok.

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The story is typical Stephen King, mixing banal suburban violence and malice with a supernatural twist. Very enjoyable.

It's slightly let down by a recording glitch whereby the final four chapters are rolled up into chapter 5. Then, when you get into chapter 6 you find yourself thrown back to an earlier part of the story. At first I thought it was some sort of weird literary device, like cut up or something.

Great story but confused by a weird recording error.

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Another king novel spoiled by horrendous music and hideous sound effects played too loudly over the narration. a great story and well narrated, but king's novels don't need sound effects, his writing is good enough to convey scary moments without them!

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why oh why do Audible producers play music over the narration. How are we expected to hear the narration. Also, stop whispering whrn whispering is required because we can't hear you!

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the story and the reading was ok but was ruined by the screeching background noise i suppose it was meant to be music at times it was louder than the reader not an enjoyable listen m.howard

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